"I didn't have a happy childhood."

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"I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years."

Wilbur Wright, American Inventor

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"Almost everything in 'A Day With Wilbur Robinson' has some basis in truth. And yes, my sister did pay me to feed her grapes while she talked to her boyfriend on the phone."

William Joyce, American Author

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"As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years."

James Ellroy, American Writer

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"It is going to be special to drive in the Netherlands because it means I can take part in a Formula One demonstration in a country where I have a lot of family and friends."

Nelson Piquet, Brazilian Celebrity

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"Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes."

Salman Rushdie, Indian Novelist

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"A daughter is a rainbow - a curve of light through scattered mist that lifts the spirit with her prismatic presence. Is a shadow - a reminder of something brilliant ducking out of sight, too easily drawn away. She is an aria, swelling within the concern chamber, an echo reverberating across a miniature sea. She is a secret, whispered, a hint of what we cannot know until it finds us. She is a sliver of her father, a shard of her mother. A daughter is a promise, kept."

Ellen Hopkins, American Novelist

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"I am extraordinarily lucky, I was born in a family of strong moral values, and in my life I was able to do what I liked best: debuts, great theatres, but above all, inner and deep satisfaction."

Jose Carreras, Spanish Musician

Family, Life, Values, Deep

"When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I'm out there to win."

Joe Frazier, American Athlete

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"But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do."

Jim Hightower, American Activist

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Explore more quotes by Giorgio Armani

"Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer."

Dream

"I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical."

Design

"I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness."

Happiness

"I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best."

Age

"There are always protests, whether you do something good or bad. Even if you do something beneficial, people say you do it because it's advertising."

People

"There are so many things to take into account - your ambition, your ego, the press, the consumers. You can never be sure that you'll be on top of the pile again."

Ambition

"I was an observer. I liked to listen rather than openly express myself. This trait is something that I've retained over the years."

Observer

"You can think you've made it and yet the next day's press will always be waiting for you, the public will always ask more of you. In short, you can always do better!"

Audience

"To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail."

Detail

"Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm so popular around the world."

People